The Greens pushed Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in a direction that was uncomfortable for the bigger parties but they went along with it because they are supreme pragmatists and they needed the Greens.

John Manley has spent the vast bulk of his 25 year-plus journalistic career with The Irish News. He has been the paper's ...

The draft programme for government will be debated by members of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael over the coming days.

Senior politicians from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, with the help of the Regional Independents Group, have spent weeks ...

Rural Independent TDs have signed up to continuous annual increases in carbon taxes despite heavily criticising the measure ...

The previous commitment to a referendum on voting rights for Irish citizens abroad is not mentioned in the new draft programme for Government.

Ireland's two major centre-right parties finalised a coalition deal with independent lawmakers on Wednesday that will return ...

The leader of Ireland's Fianna Fail party Micheal Martin is set to return to the role of prime minister next week, according ...

Ireland's next programme for Government will now be subject to approval by the party memberships over the coming days. Who ...

Ireland’s two dominant political parties will return to power for another five-year term after agreeing a new coalition deal ...

Micheal Martin is set to return as Ireland's prime minister next week, following a coalition agreement with Fine Gael and independents. This will be Martin's second term, after leading from 2020 to ...

Ireland's Fine Gael and Fianna Fail have struck a deal with independent lawmakers to form a new coalition government. The center-right parties have been negotiating since the November election left ...